A Paris court has sentenced Islamic scholar Tariq Ramadan to 18 years in prison after finding him guilty of raping three women.The verdict follows a separate conviction in Switzerland two years earlier for a different sexual assault.The case in France surfaced in 2017 amid the wider Me Too movement, when two of the three complainants first went public. The women said the assaults took place in...

Russia carried out an unprecedented drone offensive against Ukraine, firing 948 unmanned aircraft over a single 24‑hour period, Ukrainian authorities said.The country's Air Force reported 556 drones were launched from 09:00 local time in a rare daytime wave of strikes that struck cities across Ukraine.Officials said many machines were intercepted, but several made direct hits that caused deaths...

Drones launched by Ukraine overnight crossed into Estonian and Latvian territory as part of a wider strike on Russian Baltic ports, authorities in Tallinn and Riga said.One unmanned aircraft struck the chimney of a power plant in Auvere, Estonia, while another fell and detonated in Latvia’s southern Krāslava region.Officials reported no serious damage or injuries. The incidents happened...

Five women who say they were abused by Jeffrey Epstein met on camera for the first time in a BBC Newsnight session to share how the crimes still shape their lives.One of them, Joanna Harrison, said she had kept silent for years but was forced into the open when US government files were published with insufficient redactions.That disclosure stripped her of anonymity and pushed her to speak. The...

Russian forces launched an unprecedented daytime drone assault across western Ukraine on Tuesday, hitting multiple cities and damaging a historic monument.Local officials in Lviv said the 16th-century Bernardine monastery, a UNESCO-listed landmark, sustained damage.Video shared by authorities shows flames spreading through the roof of a nearby residential building. The drone wave also struck...

A huge overnight attack by Russian forces has left at least five people dead and caused damage across 11 regions of Ukraine.Authorities said a drone strike on an electric train in Kharkiv killed a 61-year-old woman.Other fatalities were reported in Zaporizhzhia, Kherson and the Poltava region, where residential buildings and a hotel were hit. Zaporizhzhia was severely affected, with six drones...

Crown Princess Mette-Marit has agreed to speak publicly about her contacts with the late Jeffrey Epstein in an interview due to air on NRK on Friday.The conversation, filmed at the couple’s Skaugum residence alongside Crown Prince Haakon, comes as her son’s high-profile trial reaches its conclusion.Marius Borg Høiby’s seven-week trial in Oslo District Court began in February and has drawn...

Prosecutors have asked a Norwegian court to hand Marius Borg Høiby a prison term of seven years and seven months, saying he should be convicted on 39 of 40 charges brought against him.Høiby, 29, faces four counts of rape and a charge of serious assault among a wider slate of accusations.He denies the most serious allegations, saying sexual encounters with the four women were consensual. The...

A Norwegian prosecutor has asked a court in Oslo to sentence Marius Borg Høiby, the son of Crown Princess Mette-Marit, to seven years and seven months in prison.Høiby faces 40 counts including the alleged sexual assault of four women, domestic violence and other offences.Investigators say some of the alleged incidents happened while the women were asleep or unconscious. He has denied the four...

Seven people have gone on trial in Dresden accused of belonging to Antifa Ost, a militant left-wing group sometimes referred to as the "hammer gang." German prosecutors say the defendants are charged with a string of violent attacks against people they identified as part of the right-wing scene.The accused — named only by initials under German privacy rules as Henry A, Tobias E, Johann G,...